it is taking the new state of the campaign finance and tax laws and exploiting them to the max. and we've sin it before. and the next president who comes in may not decide to disclose and we'll have this secret arm of donors. it is a dangerous development. >> and all well and good for them to say they won't accept corporate donors. but the fact is, the corporate world is not that keen. at least the majority of the corporate world is not that keen on them so they aren't giving up that much. >> corporations don't necessarily like writing these checks directly. but look, everybody who gets this kind of money knows who the money is coming from. and knows what the folks who are giving that money want. >> you think. >> sorry to be so cynical. >> ruth marcus, thank you. that does it for us for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." and my colleague with tamron hall has what's next on "news nation." >> awaiting the results of another round of voting for the next pope. there's now more talk than ever that we could, stress could, see the first ever american head of the catholic church